Cloud Computing “Will Unleash Huge New Opportunities for Companies” Reports U.S. Government Study
July 28, 2011Grazed from PRWEB. Author: Cheryl Renton.
j2 Global Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: JCOM), the provider of cloud-based, value-added communication, messaging and backup services, today announced that TechAmerica Foundation’s Commission on the Leadership Opportunity in the U.S. Deployment of the Cloud (CLOUD2), which includes j2 Global’s CEO, Hemi Zucker, and president Scott Turicchi, has issued a “Cloud First, Cloud Fast: Recommendations for Innovation, Leadership and Job Creation” pre-publication report…
“Cloud Computing is the latest example of how American innovation sets the pace for the world. This report examines the steps that the US government must take as a buyer and as a policymaker to ensure that we keep setting the pace,” said Phil Bond, president and CEO of TechAmerica and member of the TechAmerica Foundation board. “An increasingly competitive world is right on our heels looking for an opportunity to pass the U.S. in this new deployment. I’m betting on America.”
"We examined Transnational Data Flow and the complexity it adds to cloud adoption because of the data, processes and people residing on multiple continents with different laws and cultures,” said j2 Global CEO Hemi Zucker, who served as a Commissioner for the commercial sector. “I am honored to be a part of this prestigious group of business leaders, which includes j2 Global president, Scott Turicchi, who served as my Deputy, and am pleased that were able to help develop a national roadmap for Cloud implementation for the administration,” added Zucker.
Cloud2 commissioners have worked over the last three months to develop actionable recommendations in the thematic areas of Trust, Transnational Data Flows, Transparency and Transformation for continuing U.S. leadership in cloud innovation. The pre-publication Commission report, issued on July 26, 2011 focused on 14 specific, direct and prescriptive recommendations, which included:
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Strengthening the identity management ecosystem and data breech laws, as well as supporting increased research on cloud computing as an investment in future cloud innovation
- The U.S. government should lead by example by demonstrating its willingness to trust cloud computing environments in other countries for appropriate government workloads
- Cloud providers should enable portability through industry standards and best practices in order to ensure that data is available to customers should they wish to change cloud services
- Flexibility around budgeting and acquisition processes by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and Congress, in combination with OMB incentives for moving to the cloud, will increase the rate of adoption by government agencies
In addition to the recommendations in the body of the report, the Commission also produced a Cloud Buyer’s Guide which is available online at http://www.cloudbuyersguide.org/.
A full list of commissioners can be viewed online at http://www.techamericafoundation.org/cloud-commission-commissioners. To learn more about CLOUD², please visit http://www.techamericafoundation.org/cloud-commission.